US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Sept. 30 for "Vehicle with wheel-mounted energy storage" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,851, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Vehicle with wheel-mounted energy storage" was invented by Cory Douglas Hunt (New Holland, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a chassis, a tractive assembly coupled to the chassis, the tractive assembly including a tractive element configured to engage a support surface, a battery directly coupled to the tractive assembly, and an electric motor coupled to the tractive assembly. The electric motor is configured to receive electrical energy from the battery and drive movement of the tractive assembly relative to the chassis to p...